ὄτλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Taken as a verbal noun to ἔτλην (étlēn, “to suffer, undergo”), under the assumption that the prothetic vowel was rhythmically conditioned, or a prefix. However, the word is probably Pre-Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.tlos/ → /ˈo.tlos/ → /ˈo.tlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.tlos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.tlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.tlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.tlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.tlos/

Noun

ὄτλος • (ótlos) m (genitive ὄτλου); second declension

1. suffering, distress, burden

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄτλος; τοῦ ὄτλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄτλος ho ótlos	τὼ ὄτλω tṑ ótlō	οἱ ὄτλοι hoi ótloi
Genitive	τοῦ ὄτλου toû ótlou	τοῖν ὄτλοιν toîn ótloin	τῶν ὄτλων tôn ótlōn
Dative	τῷ ὄτλῳ tôi ótlōi	τοῖν ὄτλοιν toîn ótloin	τοῖς ὄτλοις toîs ótlois
Accusative	τὸν ὄτλον tòn ótlon	τὼ ὄτλω tṑ ótlō	τοὺς ὄτλους toùs ótlous
Vocative	ὄτλε ótle	ὄτλω ótlō	ὄτλοι ótloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀτλέω (otléō)
• ὄτλημα (ótlēma)
• ὀτλήμων (otlḗmōn)

 

Further reading

• “ὄτλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄτλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN